Originally Posted by
rustyhaight
Now, at the checkpoint, I'm thinking that time is going to be even more vague. A screener who finds, say, drug paraphernalia and calls for a supervisor may - given your previous consent to his search - continue that search for the "normal threats" he's supposed to be looking for while the supervisor makes the call on whether or not to involve real LEOs. Here, then, we would seem to rule out a "false imprisonment" or "unlawful detention" kind of situation...if only circumstantially.
It's really quite simple. The screener refuses to return your bag to you, if you try to take it you commit assault or at the very least that nice "interference" thing. Unlawful detention in my book, not that it matters in the slightest.
Of course if you don't have a bag, but that's umm... suspicious too isn't it ?
Nice catch that catch-22.